David Duchovny stars in first trailer for submarine movie Phantom

The first trailer for submarine-based film Phantom has been released, seeing David Duchovny play the leader of a rogue KGB group trying to commandeer a submarine.

The film will also star Ed Harris, who curiously plays ‘the captain of a Cold War Soviet missile submarine who has secretly been suffering from seizures that alter his perception of reality.’

Phantom looks from the trailer to be fairly standard submarine thriller fare, full of creaking pipes, bleeping radars, deep sea power struggles and imminently detonating warheads.

Snippits of dialogue we’re treated to in the first clip include the familiar exchange: ‘You give me no recourse,’ ‘Recourse for what?’ ‘To take back my ship!’ and the emphatic: ‘Engage the phantom!’

Duchovny is best known as Hank Moody in Californication (Picture: RCR)

Duchovny, who has rarely been seen on the big screen in the last few years while appearing in cult Showtime comedy Californication, but here plays a KGB commandeer (albeit one missing a Russian accent) trying to stage a coup of Harris’s ship.

The official plot synopsis reads:

‘Ed Harris plays the captain of a Cold War Soviet missile submarine who has secretly been suffering from seizures that alter his perception of reality. Forced to leave his wife and daughter, he is rushed into a classified mission, where he is haunted by his past and challenged by a rogue KGB group (led by David Duchovny) bent on seizing control of the ship’s nuclear missile. With the fate of humanity in his hands, Harris discovers he has been chosen for this mission in the belief he would fail. Phantom is a suspense submarine thriller about extraordinary men facing impossible choices.’

William Fichtner also stars in the film, which is directed by Todd Robinson and is set to hit US cinemas on March 1 with a UK release date to follow.

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